Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-125).

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a more focused understanding of the role of substance use and burglary. The data for this effort comes from interviews that were collected by Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker. The data was obtained through extensive interviews with 105 active offenders, specifically offenders who were active at the time of interview, but also who were residential burglars. The interviews were informally conducted on an individual basis, and participants were assigned nicknames or aliases rather than using real names. The findings of this thesis revealed that substance use plays a modest role in burglary, as does the perception of how drugs altered the mental consciousness. In a test of drug-crime nexus arguments, this study examined this relationship through disinhibition, motivation of drug use, the existence of a shared space, and the association of a delinquent subculture. The role of narcotics and alcohol use are included in the analysis, as there are notable effects described by participants.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology / DPhil / Unrestricted

På uppdrag av säkerhetschef och kommunpolis i Lomma kommun har studie av trygghetsvärdarnas bidragande till minskad oro för bostadsinbrott hos invånarna utförts. Studien berör boende på de gator som flest gånger blivit utsatta för bostadsinbrott mellan åren 2015–2018. För att utföra studien genomfördes tjugo intervjuer med boende från de utsatta gatorna. Av intervjuerna framkommer hur trygghetsvärdarna i Lomma kommun inte bidrar till en minskad oro för bostadsinbrott hos invånarna, detta på grund av olika riskreducerande strategier som övervakningssystem, grannsamverkan samt ägande av hund. Det framgår dock en positiv syn på trygghetsvärdarna men ingen bredare kunskap i deras brottspreventiva arbete. / Regarding a collaboration agreement between Lomma municipality and the police authority in Lomma, a study has been requested. The study focuses on the question of whether the security hosts in the community contribute to reduced anxiety about burglary among the residents. To study this question twenty interviews were conducted with participants living on those specific streets which has been exposed to burglary. The interviews revealed that almost all the participants did not feel any reduced anxiety about burglary in the presence of security hosts. This because of other strategies among the participants that included safety systems, neighbourhood watch and the owning of a dog. However, all respondents concluded a positive view of the security hosts, yet with not much knowledge about their crime preventive methods.

As in many countries, burglary is a very serious crime in Turkey. Scientific methods and techniques are needed to solve complex burglary cases. This study is completed in the Bursa Police context since they classified many crime data conducive to scientific studies under a project called BEMTAP. The main purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the commission of burglaries, using an epid-criminological perspective. It can be argued that factors leading to the commission of a crime are important for formulating preventive strategies in the community. In this study, the contributing factors are categorized into three main groups of predictors, by adapting a disease triangle in epidemiology: opportunity factors (agent), offender factors (host), and environmental factors. Criminal method (technique) and time of burglary are conceived as the opportunity factors. Four personal or host characteristics of offender factors are age, gender, marital status, and education level. Distance between the home addresses of burglars and target houses and distance between target houses and police stations are examined as environmental factors. This epid-criminology perspective is thought as a basic framework for integrating two theories: routine activity theory and rational choice theory. Two hypotheses, using agent, host, and environmental factors as predictors, were proposed to test their relationships with the frequency of burglaries committed and with the likelihood of committing repeated burglaries. In measuring the relative influence of the predictor variables on the number of burglaries and on repeated burglaries, two different models were constructed and validated. For the first model of predictors of crime against property (burglary), Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis was performed. For the second model, a logistic model of the predictors of repeated burglaries was used and analyzed. The results show that offender factors are more influential than opportunity and environmental factors in explaining the variability in frequency of burglaries committed and the likelihood to commit repeated burglaries. In conclusion, the best way to reduce burglary rate is to focus on offender factors. Dealing with opportunity factors and environmental factors would also contribute to a decreased burglary rate.

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警察在公共行政領域屬於較特殊性質的團體，工作項目包羅萬象，勤務時間24小時連續不間斷，與民眾生活息息相關。研究者任職於臺北市木柵地區的派出所近二年，深覺警察工作中的竊案防治作為的好壞極為攸關市民的居住安全感及對轄區治安滿意與否。因此，本研究為探討各派出所的竊案防治作為對轄區治安滿意之影響。 臺北市木柵地區為文教區，居住人口多為軍公教族群及一般上班族，住宅密集，各派出所的竊案防治工作之落實推動更顯其重要性。因此，本次研究特以文獻探討、深度訪談、參與觀察等三種方法探討臺北市木柵地區各派出所轄區的各類竊案防治工作對轄區治安滿意及需求的影響，除以相關文獻探討竊案成因及防治作為外；更邀請所轄各派出所及部分里長做深度訪談，再輔以研究者本身的參與觀察所見做綜合分析研判，期能發現真實問題所在並提出實務建議據以策進。 本研究結果希望對臺北市木柵地區日後的竊案防治工作執行上提供有效建言，跳脫僵化式的防竊工作既有框架，以不同角度的思維方向針對問題提出更適切可行的方法，畢竟警察工作的原動力是建立在民意的期待上，各類竊案的防治工作是警察維護地方治安的本業及重點，唯有真正以同理心瞭解民眾需求才能做好本項工作。

This study, a test of the specific deterrence in the area of juvenile delinquency, has three basic concerns. The first of these is to obtain perceptual measures of the primary components of the doctrine. Individual interpret reality, and it is this perception or interpretation of reality, rather than reality itself, that influences behavior. Second, the concern is to consider the pleasure aspect of delinquent involvement. Prior research has concentrated on punishment, virtually overlooking pleasure. And thirdly, the concern is to view specific deterrence in terms of its implicit temporal ordering, that perceptions be measured prior to the advent of subsequent delinquency. Specifically this study investigated recidivism of juvenile male first time burglary offenders. The data was drawn from police reports, probation officer's impressions and interviews with 127 boys who met the criteria of this study. The specific patterns found are both consistent and inconsistent with the deterrence doctrine. Consistent with the doctrine, pleasure is directly related to recidivism. The fact that pleasure is also one of the best predictors of recidivism suggests that its omission from most prior research may certainly have diminished the potential predictive power of the doctrine in those studies. Consistent with both the doctrine and prior research, certainty of apprehension (logarithm) is a primary deterrent to recidivism. The findings regarding the severity of punishment, on the other hand, are not so straightforward. Admittedly, the recidivists did not experience what they perceived as severe punishment. The court's response appeared to be irrelevant, and the response viewed as one of the most severe (grounding) by the recidivists was infrequently applied to them. Consistent with the doctrine, severity of apprehension (punishment) was inversely related to recidivism. However, the effect of punishment appears to be an indirect one through the condemnation of the act. This suggests that fear of punishment may not be the "deterring force"; rather, certain and severe sanctions may act to educate the one-time offender, specifying what is accepted as moral behavior. Obviously, further research is needed to uncover the interrelated effects of certainty of apprehension, moral condemnation and severity of punishment.

This analysis explores the formation of stable hot spots and the overall shifts of repeat and near repeat residential burglary over time. Data were obtained from a small college town police department. There were 1,513 repeat residential burglaries between January 2003 and December 2009 that occurred at a total of 356 addresses. Based upon past research it is thought that repeat residential burglaries will cluster in time and space creating stable hot spots and that the centrographic measures of the burglaries will remain relatively constant from year to year. The results found support for the formation of stable hot spots but found that the area in which the repeat residential burglaries were occurring increased over time.

Stölder och inbrott på svenska byggarbetsplatser är idag ett vanligt problem som uppstår under produktionen. Brotten som uppstår är inte begränsade till något område utan sker i hela landet, men områdena kring storstäderna och större riks- och europavägar är de som drabbas mest. Många företag är inte förberedda på de kostnaderna som uppstår vid en stöld eller ett inbrott och man har inte tydliga rutiner för hur man ska hantera situationen. Stölder och inbrott är ett slöseri i produktionen som man bör jobba hårdare på att ta bort eller i alla fall att minska. Slöseriet är så pass stort att det varje år anmäls ca 7000 inbrott och stölder från svenska arbetsplatser. Enligt andra studier så renderar dessa 7000 inbrott en kostnad på 1,4 miljarder årligen för den svenska byggindustrin. Detta arbete är utfört och med hjälp av NCC Sverige AB avd. Värmland. Det huvudsakliga syftet och målet med detta arbete är att NCC:s arbetsplatser ska bli säkrare och mer effektiva genom att man minskar risken för att drabbas av en stöld eller ett inbrott. Syftet är också att ge en ökad förståelse för vad det innebär och vad som händer i produktionen vid stölder och inbrott på byggarbetsplatser. Metoden som har använts för att få fram rätt information är i första hand intervju- och enkätundersökningar men det har även förts diskussioner med flertalet arbetsledare, platschefer med flera under arbetets gång. Vidare har det även utförts platsbesök på arbetsplatser där det har undersökts rutiner, placering av containrar och bodar samt förebyggande åtgärder och vilka risker som finns. Ämnet är ganska outforskat men det finns en del studier som har gjorts under åren. Svenska Byggbranschens Utvecklingsfond, SBUF, har gjort flera informationsskrifter och genomfört ett antal projekt som handlar om stölder och inbrott på svenska byggarbetsplatser. En annan stor studie som har genomförts är ”Stölder och inbrott på byggarbetsplatser – omfattning, skadeverkan och risk”, som är en studie gjord på Malmö högskola på uppdrag av FoU väst. De här studierna ligger till grund för mitt arbete och det är där kunskap och information om ämnet har hämtats. Resultatet av denna studie visar att en arbetsplats som ligger nära stora vägar och som ligger placerade på ett sätt som gör att tjuvarna kan arbeta ostört, löper störst risk för att drabbas av stölder och inbrott. Vidare så visar resultatet på att dålig belysning, dåligt skyltat om larm och en arbetsplats som inte är skyddad ordentligt i form av ordentliga stängsel och lås ligger i högriskzon för att råka ut för en stöld. Det finns mycket att jobba på hos företagen när det gäller rutiner och förebyggande åtgärder då det idag inte läggs så mycket tid på detta som det kanske borde. Exempelvis så skulle man kunna investera i mycket mer inbrottssäkra stängsel vilket skulle försvåra arbetet avsevärt för eventuella tjuvar. Med tanke på det trycket som är på att bygga bostäder och andra byggnader i Sverige idag, så kommer risken för stölder och inbrott att öka på byggarbetsplatsen. Detta är en viktig faktor som gör att ämnet borde vara intressant för företagen i branschen så att man kommer väl förberedda till varje bygge i form av förebyggande åtgärder. / Theft and brake-ins at Swedish construction sites is a very common problem that mainly occurs during the production phase of building. The fractures that occur are not limited to a specific area but they also occur throughout the entire country. However, the areas around the major cities and larger national and European roads are most affected. Many companies are not prepared for the costs of a theft or burglary and there are no clear procedures for dealing with the situation that occurs. Stolen gods and burglaries is a waste of production that the companies should work harder to remove or at least reduce. The waste is so big that about 7000 burglaries and robberies from Swedish workplaces are reported annually. According to other studies, these 7000 burglars render a cost of 1.4 billion SEK annually for the Swedish construction industry. The work has been carried out and with the help of NCC Sverige AB section Värmland. The main purpose and goal of this work is to make NCC workplaces safer and more efficient by reducing the risk of a theft or burglary. The goal is also to give an increased understanding of what it means and what happens in the production phase after thefts and burglaries at construction sites. The method used to obtain the right information is primarily interviews and questionnaire surveys, but discussions have also been held with most supervisors, site managers and several other workers. In addition, site visits have been carried out at construction sites where routines have been investigated, placement of containers and security in and around the site offices as well as preventive measures and the risks involved on the site. The subject is quite unexplored, but there are some studies that have been done over the years. Svenska Byggbranschens Utveklingsfond, SBUF, has done several information papers and implemented a number of projects that deal with theft and burglaries on Swedish construction sites. Another major study that has been carried out is "Stölder och inbrott på byggarbetsplatser – omfattning, skadeverkan och risk", a study conducted at Malmö University on behalf of FoU Väst. These studies form the basis of my work and this is where knowledge and information about the subject has been retrieved. The investigations showed that a workplace that is close to major roads or which is located in a way that makes the insight poor, is at the highest risk of being affected by burglaries. Furthermore, it is possible to say that bad lighting, badly marked alarm signs and a workplace that is not properly protected in the form of proper fences and locks lies in a high-risk zone in case of a theft. There is a lot to work to do with the companies when it comes to routines and preventive measures. For example, one would be able to invest in a much more burglary fence which would make work difficult for any thieves. Given the pressure on building homes and other buildings in Sweden today, the risks will increase to be exposed by a burglary or a theft. This is an important factor that makes the topic interesting for companies in the industry so that they can get well prepared for each construction site in terms of prevention measures.